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I'm using Ostrich Sans as part of a project and i noticed that the font is aligned to the baseline and has a large ascender. I tried but cannot vertically align this through CSS.
How can I modify the font pack itself in a tool such as FontForge such that the font is vertically centered?
I had spent all morning looking for a tutorial for this. Here is a YT video that might help. I've figured that it's the ratio between the ascent and descent values that matters. In my case, the descent was 800 while the ascent was 2533 which was causing my font to be shifted more towards the top. When I reduced the descent to 600 and increased the ascent to 2733 (keeping the total same) with the instruction shared in the video, the font became much more centered visually. Hope this helps someone!
